Uriah dudley



No. 622,6l0. Patented Apr. 4, I899. U. DUDLEY.

CLIP DR BINDER.

(Appliontion filed Jan. 17 1899.)

. (Io lodol.)

- pertains to make and use fice, manufactory,

for either hanging UNITED STATES PATENT UFFICE.

URIAII DUDLEY, OF DRAKE, NEW SOUTH WALES.

CLIP QR BINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 622,610, dated April 4, 1899. Application filed January 17, 1889. $erial1lo. 702,430. (No model.)

To (all whmn if may con-corn,-

Be itknown that I, URIAH DUDLEY, .mine manager and mining engineer, a subject of the Queen of the'United Kingdom of Great .llritain and. Ireland, residing at Drake, in the Colony of New South Vales, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in and I do herebydeclare the to be a ful clear, and exact deable others skilled in the art to which it tip the same.

The object of this invention is to produce 'an improved clip or binder suitable for either permanent or temporary application, for ofor domestic use, for holdflat form or rolled up, and up such articles or not at ing articles in the will.

Although clips which are composed of a spring and gripping-plates and means for operating such plates exist in great variety, millions of various kinds being in use, especially for binding together documents, samples, and other things, yet there are advantages in my clip in regard to simplicity, cheapncss, compactness, and scope of utility. Superior cheapness is alone a great advantage where clips are used in great numbers; but

my clip will also be used where owing to their bulk or other features of their construction other clips are found unsuitable. For example, the documents a business man usually carries in his pocket can be very conveniently kept together by my clip. My clip will also, if required, grip a tapered article along the said tapcr, not do. In practice my clip is essentially composed of a metallic body of strongly-elastic material (preferably spring-steel) and apair of stiff movable wings, which besides heingadapted for holding articles between them are also reversible in position and used to distend the spring-bod y, no other handles or fulcrums being required. I use rings which either are quite loose and removable (suitably articulated to eng. go the edges of the springbody) or are hinged to the spring or otherwise connected more or less permanently.

Tho spring-body is of cylindrical, oval, or

other special sectiommniform or not in thickthe whichu nany clips will ness at will with edges which face one another or meet or even overlap, according to the use for which the clip is intended. The forms and proportions of all the parts may vary considerably, the drawings being illustrative of some forms, it being impossible to exhibit the endless designs which maybe used.

As my clip has in form some resemblance to a butterily,with a somewhat similar sweeping movement of the wings, clips of my invention may be termec butterfly-clips.

Referring now to the accompanyingdrawings, Figure 1 shows in perspective and Fig. 2 in end viewa number of sheets of material bound together in book fashion by my clip, the wings of which are in this instance large, forming covers. Asmall clip used as abookmark is also shown in Fig. 2. Figs. 3 and 4; show the end view, as in Fig. 2, but with one and both wings respectively lying open, it being noted that whethera wing is turned up into an open position Z or turned down into the closed position 1 shown it will naturally remain Where placed. Fig. 5 shows the wings reversed in position and being used as apair of handles or levers to distend the springbody, which is thus opened. to any desired extent at its edges by the pressure of the thumb and finger on the outer edges of the said wings. A very wide opening of the spring, compared with other clips is obtainable, notwithstanding that the removable wings may be plain metal sheets, except for articulation or the like at the inner edge. Fig. 6 shows liow instead of clipping fiat sheets a roll might be clipped and hung up by the wings. Fig. 7 shows in end view-a position which the clip can assume and how matter. to be clipped, if sufiiciently' rigid, can be forced into place by pushing it between the wings, as indicated by the arrow. Fig. 8 illustrates oneway of removing the wings by drawing the spring or wings longitudinally, leaving the documents'or other articles held together by the spring alone. In general use the wings are often left on. Fig. 9 shows an end view, in both firmand dotted lines, of the spring, showing that the grip thereof may be adjusted to be either at the edge of the clipped article or not. Fig.

:: wing edges. Figs li, 10, and ii n iiied forms of the spilng'. and

20 and :31 niodiaed. forms of the is ihc inaierizal clipped. .liiieaiions of which are in Figs. 14, 113, and

hereof, on ilk: wings or on tho rings, diiieaiions of which are C C C, L C", and C in Figs. 19, 20, 21,13, (7, and. 1:, respectively. I.) is the hoolc liho cilgc or like pnsi, atthe inner edge earl. win by which articnla lion orengagenieni. with thespring; ell'eotod, and is tho outer edge f each wing. :2: 'lho inner r 5 of ihe wings C may be ily as neon by eonipnring 'nsied di 1 l mu? 3, and when ihe inner edges 3) are led iar o; f. 12, awnyiroin the edges. znro of ihe edges ii of the spring 1 senior of LilO wings, and conseare rigid the pressure "ronly npon Lhe clipped onzo ea helping-,- to cli: ".a-ierial no l nd .l ofiw 1 ring: arc prm i, as i Fi :iblc tho clips; to be hung up The absence such ng eohoi. handles and projocbi' possess enable: inannser piili 4, and rcivspapers 5o bound and arranged side another in such a (ZOlllPfiC the ncoilnoi' nianyliinar than tho or "dry binding. oioher Ino ii or the cxpsn.

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than awry on and to be mass or to nnbind iiing'siionli'i. he onei ininnil eonnidcrable rs'oar and avoid an'kn'nrdnoon of siinno "e." I

only airnelion of iisiioldiniz onpneii-y. ion" 5 euro those iiil 'ania on and by reason i izo i'ingo lining rcnioi'ablo onnblo ilioni in .of a number of shoots in'tho form of a roll might be gripped and suspended from tho elips shown in Figs. 11 and 12 as well as simply la-t sheets, as shown.

\Vhore thick articles are to be clipped, iris not necessary that the spring edges 13 should be able to quite or nearly meet, and Fig. 15 shows an end View of an nndistended spring, with non-meeting edges I3,wl1ieh are intended to receive an object thick enough to expand the spring.

There are many other applications of my invcntion which need not; be illustrated, such as iis use as a eloi'hes-peg or to hold closed unsealed mail-matter i o be sent through the post, the addressoo in the latter case being able to reuse the clip, if so disposed. As a Qycle-elip for various purposes the spring may, asin Fig. 14, have a barrel to grasp the f il ng oi;

appropriately shaped with sides, my clip becomes a kind or )0). capable of gripping its contents.

An essential oi? my clip is distention of the by rising wligs an levers or handles when turned up which when turned down insloso tho arti lo gripped. This essential may exist where one or both Wings are articulated or liingcii. to 'thespring in some manner more: permanent than is shown bnl: which to a skilled mechanic would be obvious, so that; the wings would not readily fall away from the spring when being handled.

In ig. 17 I show apertures ll for'foho li2l5- sage of the Wing edges D through the spring seen in end yiqw in Fig. 13. In Fig. 10' I Show a slot G for allowing a oil. iiole to pass through tho sprin ii are serra*'=' In Fig. 18 I show 1 J in This would be' used chiefly with ohangos in form mighfi be made without (10- being free to swing back and operate direct-1y upon the spring-body as levers for opening the some or as silpporting-handles for the clip and free to swing forward and act as binding-plates, substantially as described.

A clip or binder, composed of a springbody and perforated wings each provided with I hooked portion, said body being provided with apertures for the reception of the hooked portions of the wings, substantially as de scribed.

I Witnessesz W. H. CUBLEY, G. G. TURIN.

URIAH DUDLEY. 

